Hogwarts: This holy light is righteously evil

The carriage fell completely silent.

Puni reopened the book "Bloodline Resonance," leaned back in his chair, and once again immersed himself in the magical world within its pages.

Sitting opposite him, Qiu Zhang was quite excited, peering out the car window with bright eyes at the rapidly changing scenery.

For her, who grew up in the Muggle world, this unfamiliar English countryside, along with the train itself heading to the magic school, held countless surprises and curiosities.

She watched the sheep grazing in the fields, the eagles soaring across the sky, and the lone windmill on the distant hillside.

It wasn't until the train entered a dense forest and the scenery outside the window became monotonous that he reluctantly turned his gaze away and picked up the brand-new "History of Magic" textbook from his lap.

She tried to calm down and read a couple of pages, but the long passages written by Bashida Bashat in the textbook just wouldn't stick in her head.

The carriage was too quiet, except for the occasional sound of Puni turning pages, which mingled with the rhythmic rumble of the wheels. She couldn't help but look up, her gaze involuntarily drifting upwards until it quietly landed on Puni's face.

He lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes casting a small, pale shadow beneath them, his expression so focused that everything around him seemed irrelevant.

Sunlight streamed through the car window, gilding his hair with a golden edge.

His fingers, long and slender, held the book, and the family ring on his left index finger gleamed coldly in the light.

This ring is so cool!

Qiu Zhang only looked at it for two seconds before his heart inexplicably started racing. He quickly lowered his head and buried his face in the pages of the book, but his cheeks flushed uncontrollably.

She forced herself to stare at the words in the textbook, but after a long time, she couldn't absorb a single sentence; all she could hear was the pounding of her own heart.

After a long while, she quietly raised her eyes and glanced at the other side out of the corner of her eye.

Seeing that Puni remained in the same position without moving his head and had not noticed her peeking, she breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

"Knock knock"

At that moment, there was a knock on the carriage door.

A girl opened the door.

"Excuse me, the train will be arriving at Hogwarts soon. If you haven't changed into your wizard robes yet, please do so."

Since it wasn't his own home, after the initial misunderstanding with Qiu Zhang, Puni kept a bit of his attention on the outside world.

He looked up, first glancing at Qiu Zhang who had closed his book, then looking towards the door: "Okay, thanks for the reminder."

"Wizard's robe...where's the wizard's robe?" Qiu Zhang searched for a while, and finally found her robe inside after Puni helped her put down her suitcase.

"Can't we just put it on the outside?"

Qiu Zhang looked up and immediately saw that Puni was already dressed in his wizard robes.

"Ah, I'd forgotten you were wearing a wizard's robe when we first met!"

Puni nodded: "That's right, just put it on. I wear it at home too. Actually, wearing a robe is quite convenient, and you can take it off anytime."

The two looked out the window.

As darkness gradually descended into the night.

A vast expanse of crimson and purple hues painted the entire sky, and the last rays of the setting sun were shattered in the rushing wind.

The train continued its roar forward, with the layered mountains and dense forests outside the window rushing past.

The dark branches twisted and swayed in the twilight, casting dappled and shifting shadows on the car window, creating a somewhat eerie and ghostly atmosphere.

"This is... the Magic Academy?" Qiu Zhang asked, somewhat puzzled.

Why does this feel different from the magical world I imagined?

"The Hogwarts Express is about to arrive at the station. Please leave your luggage on the train and do not take it with you. The school will deliver your luggage to your dormitory."

A voice rang out in the train.

The train gradually slowed down until it came to a stop and pulled up beside the platform.

"This platform is really small, it's nothing like King's Cross Station." Cho Chang and Puni got off the train together.

"Wow! It's so cold!"

As soon as he got out of the car, Qiu Zhang couldn't help but shiver and quickly wrapped his wizard robe tighter around himself.

"First-year students! All of you, gather over here!"

Like an earthquake, Hagrid's voice is highly distinctive.

Puni turned around and looked.

Hagrid was holding a very large lantern and was gathering the first-year wizards.

"Let's go over there. Watch your step, this place isn't easy to walk on."

Puni extended his hand, and Qiu Zhang blushed, but still offered his hand in return.

It's pitch black here, you can't see anything.

It's always better to have someone help you than to walk like a blind person.

"Thank you," Qiu Zhang said with a shy smile.

"You're welcome." Grasping Cho Chang's hand, Puni waved his wand with his right hand.

"Lumos!"

A warm, shimmering white light suddenly rose from the tip of the staff, hovering steadily in mid-air, dispelling the surrounding twilight and illuminating the winding gravel path beneath their feet.

Qiu Zhang's eyes lit up: "This is so beautiful! It seems even brighter than the ball of light my mother summoned!"

"Let's go, turn this corner, it'll be much better up ahead." Puni Chongqiu Zhang smiled.

After the two reunited with Hagrid.

Qiu Zhang looked the big guy up and down with curiosity.

Good heavens!

Is this a human being?

She turned her head and saw that many of the children around her were staring at the huge thing in shock, and everyone was quiet.

After pondering for a moment, seeing that Puni was simply following Hagrid indifferently, he also fell silent.

After rounding the slippery, sharp bend, the narrow, muddy forest path suddenly widened, and a bottomless black lake unexpectedly came into view.

Puni looked at it with great interest.

This body of water, known as the Black Lake, is indeed something special.

—The cool moonlight spilled onto the inky lake, yet it did not reflect any light, leaving only a thick, impenetrable silence, much like a huge obsidian stone laid out between the valleys.

On the opposite shore of the lake, nestled between two steep mountain ranges, a castle with towering corner towers and spires rises abruptly. Gothic spires pierce the night sky, and countless windows let out lights, which, under a sky studded with stars, resemble a galaxy scattered across the earth, dazzlingly bright.

"So beautiful..." Qiu Zhang couldn't take his eyes off her.

Puni smiled.

"This is Hogwarts, the renowned magic school throughout Europe."

Just then, the diary in his mind, formed from the condensation of elements, suddenly opened automatically.

A map of Hogwarts, shrouded in thick white fog, slowly emerged.

On the current map, only the forest path from the station to Black Lake is visible to Puni. The castle, Black Lake, and the surrounding woodlands are still shrouded in thick fog, and only their outlines can be barely discerned.

"Oh?"

The changes in the diary made Puni raise an eyebrow.

"interesting."

He said, "This diary can't just be for people to keep a diary, can it?"

It has many uses!